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Manuscript/Mixed Material Collection of Kabbalah texts

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Title

  • Collection of Kabbalah texts

Created / Published

  • 17th century.

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Hebrew--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Italian semi-cursive script.
  • -  Description based on finding aid
  • -  Owners: אני מנחם כהן יצ"ו Menahem Kohen (on the vellum cover); Graziado Salamon Foa (?). On the inside back cover some accounts, one of them mentioning ברוך לבית ברוך מניצא Barukh Barukh of Nizza Monferrato. Deinard, 1914. MMW.
  • -  Work 1: Ff. 1r-9v: מעיל צדקה Me'il Zedakah by Aaron Berekhiah Modena. Beginning missing until the middle of Day Five. Printed several times. First edition Venice 1748.
  • -  Work 2: F. 10r-v: פסוקים מסודרים בסדר אלפא ביתא מכוונים לדעת המסדר להיות על שפת האדם תמיד Biblical verses to be recited arranged in alphabetical order.
  • -  Work 3: Ff. 14r-24v: [פירוש פרק שירה] Commentary on Perek Shirah by Benjamin b. Eliezer ha-Kohen. At the end another hand added זה מכתיבת יד של... מורי ורבי... בנימין כצ"י נר"ו.
  • -  Work 4: Ff. 28r-33v:כוונת ימי השבוע מהרמ"ע ז"ל Kavvanot (mystical intentions) for the days of the week by Menahem Azariah Fano. By another hand.
  • -  Work 5: Ff. 50r-51v: תקון שובבי"ם. סדר כוונת יחודי שובבי"ם Tikkun Shovevim, mystical prayers for the Shovevim - the weeks between the readings of the pericopes Shemot and Mishpatim.
  • -  Work 6: Ff. 52r-53r: קצת אזהרות ותיקונים לשמות הקר"י.
  • -  Work 7: F. 56r-v: [מרובעים קסומים] Magic squares, one of them with the name Menahem Zion b. Deborah in the middle, possibly the name of the owner.
  • -  Work 8: F. 57v: [רפואות] Prescriptions, including a balm for circumcision, by Joshua Aaron.

Medium

  • 57 ff. Paper. ; 14.7 x 10 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LC Hebr. Ms 4
  • Micro Orien. Hebr. 880/4

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018757621

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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